One of Rucker's books -- perhaps SEEK! -- describes his drunken feud with Cal Thomas, the conservative columnist, when they were neighbors in Lynchburg.

Holy Shit! Rudy Rucker was in Lynchburg in the early 80s?

Damn, if I'd known that, my life might be very, very different today.

Or it might be exactly the same. But damn.

Gibson's blog entries are just so cool. Today's entry -- on fax machines, and why he doesn't set fiction in Vancouver -- made me feel *good* in a undefinable way.

This is true, but applies to more than blogs. The topics and links in Bruce Sterling's Viridian List have turned up in his last couple of novels. The settings of Neal Stephenson's novels could be predicted by looking at the articles he wrote for Wired.

Yeah. There's about half of the next graphic novel, STEALTH TRIBES, on the last four months or so of diepunyhumans.

That's the way I use my weblog, greg.org, but for films. When I'm in production/development on something, it's mostly war stories from the set/editing room/festival fray.

When I'm...well, when I'm writing a script, and not ready/in the mood to disclose/discuss it explicitly, I post the raw inputs, from which one could "extrapolate" the movie.

Except that the product is completely different. When did Gibson say he'd probably have to stop posting on his weblog when he went into bookwriting mode?